The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-01-21
TRAGEDY AT A STRIKE.
A Boy Shot at Jersey City BY PInker-
ton Men.
The Detectives Aneered by Boys who
Snow-baIIed Them.
The Unfortunate Victim of the Firing
Simply Looker-on.

JERSEY CITY, Nj, Jan. 2O-A number of
boys who were playing in an open lot at the
corner Of Henderson and 18th streets adjoin-
ing the Delaware, Lackawana & Western
railroad coal yards were fired ON by Pinker
ton men this afternoon about five o'clock and
Thomas Hogan, 16 years old,a locker on, was
killed. The boys jeered at the detectives
stationed in the company's yards, and then
began pelting them with snow balls. Groups
of strikers and sympathizers of the west side
OF Henderson street smiled approval at the
lads. AT length the leader of the Pinkerton
men stepped forward and ordered the boys
to stop throwing missels at them. The boys
did not obey and almost Immediately three
sharp cracks of revolver rang out and Ho-
gan fell dead. The excitement was intense
and the lookers-on fled in every direction.
The leader of the strikers as soon as he could
get his men together ordered them back to
their headquarters at the corner of Hender-
son and Ferry streets. In anticipation of an
attack the Pinkerton men were at once
drawn up in battle array. The Jersey City
police reserve, stationed at the yards under
command of Inspector Lang, hurried to the
scene. The dead boy, who had been desert
ed at the first sound of the firing, was picked
up by Thomas Brandon. an ambulance was
summoned, and the body was removed to the
morgue.
Hogan was not one of the party of boys
pelting the men, but stood on the opposite
side of Henderson street He worked in the
potato yard and was returning home when
he met his death. His parents reside at
5S34 Grove street.
Inspector Lang Immediately collected a
number of witnesses of the shooting and
marched the Pinkerton men out in line. He
then ordered the witnesses to identify the
men who shot. They at once selected Pat
rick Sheehy, Daniel Caliill and Samuel a..
Neff from the line and identified them as the
three men who fired at the boys. The in
spector examined their revolvers, which are
of "A calibre centre fire and of the long navy
pattern. Every chamber was loaded. The
men were at once taken to the police head
quarters, and held upon suspicion of having
committed homicide.
Thomas Byrnes, an eyewitness of the
shooting, said to reporter: II stood at my
stable door Immediately opposite the yards.
l saw the boys throwing snow balls at the
men, but they did not strike them. The
leader of the Pinkerton men stepped out in
front and shaking his fist threateningly at
the boys exclaimed: 'Damn you if you don't
stop I'll shoot you.' Almost Immediately
afterwards saw four Pinkerton men draw
their reyolvers and fire. Hogan Immediate
ly dropped to the ground.
This story was corroborated by John Eek,
painter, residing at 623 Newark Avenue.
About O'Clock tonight the police arrested
Murphy Morriarty, one of Pinkerton's men
as another of the shooters One o. his eyes
were terribly djscolored and swollen where
he had been struck by a snow ball. Another
of Pinkerton's men had tooth knocked out
by snow ball.
The ball that struck Hogan pierced his
brain directly above his right eye.
The county physician in conversation after
viewing the body of young Hogan tonight,
nrdn roA In. Stact fhn lo%f
panel jury tomorrow.
The large number of strikers congregated
about the city prison caused Chief Murphy
to transfer the prisoners to Oakland.